just thinking out loud here but i feel like a lot of popular perception of kon esp in online fandom spaces is colored by his joie de vivre and all the times he's silly and goofy. which i do of course adore!! i love when he's silly and goofy. but comparing that perception to, that of like, clark or kara, i feel like kon gets shunted into the box of "dumb comic relief character" a lot more easily. lots of factors probably contribute to that (sb94 having a bad rep, while no other kon comic really goes into a lot of his tragedy; conflation with the side of the fandom that doesn't read comics; the fact that comparatively postcrisis kara doesn't have a team the way kon has yj and clark is seen as a more capable adult, so other characters in the jl get the "dumb comic relief" short end of the stick more often; etc) ...
... but what really gets me about him is that he does embody a lot of the same traits as the rest of the kryptonian superfam. he's so extremely kind. he's got that same noble heart as the rest of them; he cares about everyone and he wants to protect everyone. and he's so, so lonely. he struggles between cultures and worlds where he feels like he doesn't belong to either. he is so strong and capable and holds so much power that it scares him.
cradles him gently in my hands. he contains multitudes... come closer don't you want to love him 🥺
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really weird thing ive noticed lately re: hermits getting critiqued for stuff theyve said or done is that as soon as someone holds a shit opinion (even if it's just them being stupid, or a centrist, or saying a bad word without knowing what it means, or whatever) people immediately seem to flock to the 'this guy should die' 'kys' 'why are we giving this person a platform' rhetoric and like. that's not how meaningful change is made?
like, yeah, if one of my beloved CCs posted a tweet or video tomorrow about how much they hate gay people, or believe in conservative ideals, or they just said a bunch of slurs or whatever (these are hyperbolic examples obviously) then yeah, fuck them, they should go rot. but like, having some dumb takes, or saying bad things in the past, doesn't = evil terrible person...
idk, i feel like we can critique content creators without getting so insane about it. like, shit, there are things some of my favourites do that i don't like, but theyre not even really worth bringing up tbh. unless its something actually important, i feel like it just creates more drama out of nothing and all these assholes come crawling out of the woodwork to tell everyone how much they hate that creator. or find their content boring anyway so clearly they have no real merit to anyone.
more of an explanation of what i mean in the tags but yeah.
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El has nightmares. they both do, it's no surprise. Max knows all the classics, and can sometimes tell which El is having by what she murmurs in her sleep. lots of Starcourt and lab ones. Max dying is easily the most common one. for all those, Max can wake her and comfort her and tell her it's okay.
a rare one that Max hates the most is when El cries mama? like a lost child. that's the one that always makes Max cry, because there's not a thing she can do about it. all the love in the world is no replacement for what was taken from El. she will never recover, and there are no real words of comfort to offer.
for those, Max tries to gather her up gently without waking her, and hold her close, and hope that El's dreams might shape her arms into the ones she needs.
sometimes, when El tightens around her and breathes more softly, mama, Max likes to think maybe it's working. she kisses her head and tries her hardest to cry silently.
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Fanfics Recs
Hi! So lets talk about the elephant on the room, Zar’s gone, their fics are gone. Im sure they did the best thing for them and I hope they're okay and that they can still enjoy this fandom without having to deal with the toxics part of it, doing so from the anonymity. Maybe one day they would bring their fics back, but maybe they wont. either way, this fandom is full of AMAZING stories, and every day I see new ones! Every day a new writer comes out with such beautiful and interesting concepts, so please, be kind to them, remember fanfic is not something you can buy, this is a comunity where we all interact and interchange opinions and our creativity in the ways we can!
I created a page for all the fics I have read and enjoyed, and Im working on one for my tbr.
Read Fics
TBR
And because it takes time to do it prettily, here’s a list of recomendations too! (That are not on the previous pages yet)
After Everything, Always by Reggie4dayzz
A Taste of Scandal by Solmussa
all the world around us by softhearted
A thousand bells ring in my heart (how hard it is to ask for forgiveness) by Alfonsiny
Balancing act - onedayofcourse
blinding lights by introvertedhufflepuff
By Your Heart's Calm Strenght - pansysnarkinson
can i save you this time? (can you save me too?) by maynightcity ***
Chasing the sun (For you) - matchamoony
Diptych by pansysnarkinson
Don't Blame me (Love Made me Crazy) - pieces_of_a_mirrorball
Downfall by Lunarde
Drugs and surgical scrubs by anauro
edge by pinkpalaceapartments
Futile devices by moonylovesreggie
GreenLight by starmoonchaser
Good Old-Fashioned Loverboy - TakeSwimmingLessons
glimpses of heaven by lunahunt
heaven is here if you want it by invisiblemuseum
If The Sun Caught Icarus by dantesstarsxxxii
i'll be seeing you by residentrookie
in the fires of our youth (oh, brother of mine) by quynhorlose
Into the Dark by regulusdiary
Kill Your Darlings by MesserMoon
lifeless things (nothing beside remains) by sisyphusss
Lost At Sea by star_stories
Loving is easy - rxgulus
Si vis pacem, para bellum by aureusprongs
Teeth -amour_anguis, regularis_vas
the elysium by pixie90smom
The Catfish & the King - TheBiButterfly
The Strange Serendipity of Regulus Arcturus Black by shy_attention_whore
this is me trying by witchhunts
Thole, Reggie. Thole by puddinghater26
Would That I by third_crow
We are all Stardust by rrosie_08
The ones in black are just my personal favorites!
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